Essays and articles with a eclectic edge.
5 Great Articles about the High Seas
2 December 2024 @ 5:10 pm
5 Great Articles about the High SeasAlone at the Edge of the World by Cassidy Randall - Susie Goodall wanted to circumnavigate the globe in her sailboat without stopping. She didn’t bargain for what everyone else wantedWere Pirates Foes of the Modern Order—or Its Secret Sharers? by Daniel Immerwahr - We’ve long viewed them as liberty-loving rebels. B
10 Great Essays about Abortion
8 October 2024 @ 1:12 pm
10 Great Essays about AbortionThe Endgame in the Battle Over Abortion by Mary Ziegler - The arc of the fetal personhood movement signals where Republicans may be headedSomewhere Worse by Jia Tolentino - We are entering an era not just of unsafe abortions but of the widespread criminalization of pregnancy
8 Great Essays about Social Media
12 September 2024 @ 7:48 pm
8 Great Essays about Social MediaThe I in the Internet by Jia Tolentino - The Internet has gone from being a utopia where everything was possible to a place full of angry people obsessed with their own representationThe New Pornographers by Roxane Gay - It’s a TikTok world, creative and sprawling and strange and anarchic and tedious and gross and you can’t stop scrolling and you can’t stop looking and you just want more. So what’s
5 Great Articles about Internet Dirty Work
6 September 2024 @ 12:13 pm
5 Great Articles about Internet Dirty WorkAI Is a Lot of Work by Josh Dzieza - As the technology becomes ubiquitous, a vast tasker underclass is emerging — and not going anywhere…Road-Tripping With the Amazon Nomads by Josh Dzieza - To stock Amazon’s shelves, merchants travel the backroads of America in search of rare soap and cov
11 Classic Articles Chosen by The Lazy Reader
30 August 2024 @ 11:14 am
The Lazy Reader is a great new narrative nonfiction newsletter that launched in early 2024. Subscribers get a weekly roundup of the best new journalism every Monday, plus a themed reading list of classic articles every Thursday. We’ve been enjoying their picks, so we asked them to put together a list of their all-time favourite articles:Ground Control to Mr. Meline by James Ross Gardner - A teacher fell victim to a famil
7 Great Articles about Anxiety
20 August 2024 @ 6:42 pm
7 Great Articles about AnxietyUnderstanding the Anxious Mind by Robin Marantz Henig - Some people, no matter how robust their stock portfolios or how healthy their children, are always mentally preparing for doom. They are just born worriers Surviving Anxiety by Scott Stossel - I’ve tried therapy, drugs, and booze. Here’s how I came to terms with the nation’s most common mental
10 Great Articles about the Apocalypse
17 August 2024 @ 9:19 pm
10 Great Articles about the ApocalypseAsteroids! Solar Storms! Nukes! Climate Calamity! Killer Robots! by Joel Achenbach - A guide to contemporary doomsday scenarios — from the threats you know about to the ones you never think ofHere Comes the Sun—to End Civilization by Matt Ribel - Every so often, our star fires off a plasma bomb in a random direction. Our best hope the next time Earth is in the crosshairs? Capacitors.
The 50 Best Articles and Essays of 2024 (So Far)
1 August 2024 @ 7:33 pm
The 50 Best Articles and Essays of 2024 (So Far)Our roundup of the best journalism from the first half of the year
The 250 Best Articles from the New Yorker
21 July 2024 @ 1:17 pm
The 250 Best Articles from the New YorkerWe’ve updated our collection of the best articles and essays from the one and only New Yorker. Click though for essential nonfiction from one of the world’s greatest magazines.
The 200 Best Articles from the New York Times
10 July 2024 @ 1:27 pm
The 200 Best Articles from the New York TimesWe’ve updated our list of the best journalism from America’s leading newspaper… click through for 100s of articles and essays from the past 30 years that have really stood the test of time